most receptions by a rookie in chicago bears history

Matt Forte has the most receptions by a Bears rookie, with 63 catches in 2008.

	NAME	REC	SEASON	TM	GP	TRG	REC YDS	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Matt Forte M. Forte	63	2008	CHI	16	76	477	7.6	29.8	4	1,238	316	3.9	77.4	8
2	Darnell Mooney D. Mooney	61	2020	CHI	16	98	631	10.3	39.4	4	20	4	5.0	1.3	0
3	Colston Loveland C. Loveland	58	2025	CHI	16	82	713	12.3	44.6	6	-2	1	-2.0	-0.1	0
4	Mike Ditka M. Ditka	56	1961	CHI	14		1,076	19.2	76.9	12	0	0		0.0	0
5	Rome Odunze R. Odunze	54	2024	CHI	17	101	734	13.6	43.2	3	15	3	5.0	0.9	0
6	Tarik Cohen T. Cohen	53	2017	CHI	16	71	353	6.7	22.1	1	370	87	4.3	23.1	2
7	Luther Burden III L. Burden III	47	2025	CHI	15	60	652	13.9	43.5	2	37	6	6.2	2.5	0
8	Johnny Knox J. Knox	45	2009	CHI	15	80	527	11.7	35.1	5	0	0		0.0	0
9	Harlon Hill H. Hill	45	1954	CHB	12		1,124	25.0	93.7	12	0	0		0.0	0
10	Willie Gault W. Gault	40	1983	CHI	16		836	20.9	52.3	8	31	4	7.8	1.9	0
11	Greg Olsen G. Olsen	39	2007	CHI	14	66	391	10.0	27.9	2	0	0		0.0	0
12	Raymont Harris R. Harris	39	1994	CHI	16		236	6.1	14.8	0	464	123	3.8	29.0	1
13	Ken Margerum K. Margerum	39	1981	CHI	16		584	15.0	36.5	1	11	1	11.0	0.7	0
14	Charlie Wade C. Wade	39	1974	CHI	14		683	17.5	48.8	1	-15	1	-15.0	-1.1	0
15	Roschon Johnson R. Johnson	34	2023	CHI	15	40	209	6.1	13.9	0	352	81	4.3	23.5	2
16	David Terrell D. Terrell	34	2001	CHI	16	63	415	12.2	25.9	4	0	0		0.0	0
17	Anthony Miller A. Miller	33	2018	CHI	15	54	423	12.8	28.2	7	26	6	4.3	1.7	0
18	Bobby Engram B. Engram	33	1996	CHI	16		389	11.8	24.3	6	0	0		0.0	0
19	Walter Payton W. Payton	33	1975	CHI	13		213	6.5	16.4	0	679	196	3.5	52.2	7
20	George Farmer G. Farmer	31	1970	CHI	11		496	16.0	45.1	2	0	0		0.0	0
21	Ronnie Bull R. Bull	31	1962	CHI	14		331	10.7	23.6	0	363	113	3.2	25.9	1
22	Ken Grandberry K. Grandberry	30	1974	CHI	14		212	7.1	15.1	0	475	144	3.3	33.9	2
23	Jordan Howard J. Howard	29	2016	CHI	15	50	298	10.3	19.9	1	1,313	252	5.2	87.5	6
24	Gale Sayers G. Sayers	29	1965	CHI	14		507	17.5	36.2	6	867	166	5.2	61.9	14
25	Cole Kmet C. Kmet	28	2020	CHI	16	44	243	8.7	15.2	2	-3	1	-3.0	-0.2	0

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